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swordbroken
@swordbroken

Came up with this an hour ago. All the standard pawns are replaced with standard rooks and the rooks with pawns. Black kept winning(!), first with a king-and-queen mate and then a much faster queen-and-bishop mate, so I have given the computer three minutes to think about every move. This computer gaming program will be the end of me.


swordbroken
@swordbroken

Black wins again with 29. ... Qf7#. White sacrificed its Queen on move 7 when it could have instead easily used a Knight or Rook to take back. I can't tell if I broke the engine with too many available Rook moves or if the game is just somehow massively skewed for Black.

Zillions' weird notation below:


  1. Rook a2 x a7
    1...Rook h7 x h2
  2. Rook f2 x f7
    2...King e8 x f7
  3. Rook a7 x b7
    3...Bishop c8 x b7
  4. Rook g2 x h2
    4...Rook g7 x g1
  5. Rook h2 x h8
    5...Bishop b7 - a6
  6. Knight b1 - c3
    6...Rook e7 x e2
  7. Queen d1 x e2
    7...Bishop a6 x e2
  8. Rook d2 x e2
    8...Rook c7 x c3
  9. Rook e2 - f2
    9...King f7 - g7
  10. Rook h8 x g8
    10...King g7 x g8
  11. Rook c2 x c3
    11...Bishop f8 - g7
  12. Rook b2 - b3
    12...Bishop g7 x c3
  13. Rook b3 x c3
    13...Rook d7 - e7
  14. Rook c3 - e3
    14...Queen d8 - a5
  15. King e1 - e2
    15...Queen a5 - b5
  16. King e2 - d2
    16...Queen b5 - b4
  17. King d2 - d3
    17...Queen b4 - b3
  18. King d3 - e2
    18...Queen b3 - c4
  19. King e2 - d2
    19...Rook e7 - d7
  20. Rook e3 - d3
    20...Rook d7 x d3
  21. Bishop f1 x d3
    21...Queen c4 x c1
  22. King d2 - e2
    22...Queen c1 - d1
  23. King e2 - e3

oops i lost the rest of the notation bye


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in reply to @swordbroken's post:

Wondering why the pawns weren't ever moving, I looked into how their movement was defined and found that the two-square initial move basically depended on moving from the player's second rank. So, I gave them the option to move three-squares from the first rank. And White won! ...strangely, using a pawn that had not moved.


  1. Rook a2 x a7
    1...Rook f7 x f2
  2. Rook g2 x f2
    2...Rook b7 x a7
  3. Rook h2 x h7
    3...Rook g7 x h7
  4. Rook b2 x b8
    4...Rook h7 x h1
  5. Rook e2 x e7
    5...Rook d7 x e7
  6. Rook f2 - e2
    6...Bishop c8 - d7
  7. Rook b8 x d8
    7...King e8 x d8
  8. Rook e2 x e7
    8...Bishop f8 x e7
  9. Rook c2 x c7
    9...Rook a7 x c7
  10. Rook d2 - g2
    10...Knight g8 - f6
  11. Bishop c1 - f4
    11...Bishop e7 - b4
  12. Knight b1 - d2
    12...Rook c7 - c6
  13. Queen d1 - b1
    13...Rook c6 - e6
  14. Knight g1 - e2
    14...Knight f6 - d5
  15. Bishop f4 - g5
    15...King d8 - c8
  16. Queen b1 - c2
    16...Knight d5 - c3
  17. Queen c2 - b3
    17...Pawn a8 - a5
  18. Queen b3 - c4
    18...Rook e6 - c6
  19. Queen c4 - g8
    19...King c8 - b7
  20. Bishop g5 - f4
    20...Knight c3 x e2
  21. Queen g8 - b8
    21...King b7 - a6
  22. Queen b8 - a8
    22...King a6 - b6
  23. Queen a8 - d8
    23...King b6 - b5
  24. Rook g2 - g5
    24...Bishop d7 - f5
  25. Rook g5 x f5
    25...King b5 - a4
  26. King e1 x e2
    26...Rook h1 x f1
  27. King e2 x f1
    27...Rook c6 - c1
  28. King f1 - g2
    28...Rook c1 - c6
  29. Queen d8 - d7
    29...King a4 - a3
  30. Queen d7 x c6
    30...Bishop b4 x d2
  31. Bishop f4 x d2
    31...Pawn a5 - a4
  32. Queen c6 - c3
    32...King a3 - a2
  33. Queen c3 - b2